An Anthem Of Earth (Francis Thompson Poems)
Proemion.Immeasurable Earth!Through the loud vast and populacy of Heaven,Tempested with gold schools of ponderous orbs,That cleav'st with deep-revolting harmoniesPassage perpetual, ...
Francis Thompson Poems on Night (31 Poems)
From The Night Of Forebeing (Francis Thompson Poems)
An ode after Easter.Cast wide the folding doorways of the East,For now is light increased!And the wind-besomed chambers of the ...
Ode To The Setting Sun (Francis Thompson Poems)
Alpha and Omega, sadness and mirth, The springing music, and its wasting breath--The fairest things in life are Death and ...
Sister Songs-An Offering To Two Sisters – Part The First (Francis Thompson Poems)
The leaves dance, the leaves sing,The leaves dance in the breath of the Spring.I bid them dance,I bid them sing,For ...
Her Portrait (Francis Thompson Poems)
Oh, but the heavenly grammar did I holdOf that high speech which angels' tongues turn gold!So should her deathless beauty ...
Orient Ode (Francis Thompson Poems)
Lo, in the sanctuaried East,Day, a dedicated priestIn all his robes pontifical exprest,Lifteth slowly, lifteth sweetly,From out its Orient tabernacle ...
The Hound of Heaven (Francis Thompson Poems)
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I ...
The Mistress Of Vision (Francis Thompson Poems)
I Secret was the garden; Set i' the pathless awe Where no star its breath can draw. ...
Heard On The Mountain (Francis Thompson Poems)
From Hugo's 'Feuilles d'Automne'.Have you sometimes, calm, silent, let your tread aspirant riseUp to the mountain's summit, in the presence ...
A Corymbus For Autumn (Francis Thompson Poems)
Hearken my chant, 'tisAs a Bacchante's,A grape-spurt, a vine-splash, a tossed tress, flown vaunt 'tis!Suffer my singing,Gipsy of Seasons, ere ...
The Dread Of Height (Francis Thompson Poems)
Not the Circean wineMost perilous is for pain:Grapes of the heavens' star-loaden vine,Whereto the lofty-placedThoughts of fair souls attain,Tempt with ...
To My Godchild-Francis M. W. M. (Francis Thompson Poems)
This labouring, vast, Tellurian galleon,Riding at anchor off the orient sun,Had broken its cable, and stood out to spaceDown some ...
July Fugitive (Francis Thompson Poems)
Can you tell me where has hid her Pretty Maid July?I would swear one day ago She passed by,I would ...
To Monica Thought Dying (Francis Thompson Poems)
You, O the piteous you!Who all the long night throughAnticipatedlyDisclose yourself to meAlready in the waysBeyond our human comfortable days;How ...
New Year’s Chimes (Francis Thompson Poems)
What is the song the stars sing? (And a million songs are as song of one) This is the ...
The After Woman (Francis Thompson Poems)
Daughter of the ancient Eve,We know the gifts ye gave--and give.Who knows the gifts which YOU shall give,Daughter of the ...
Grace Of The Way (Francis Thompson Poems)
'My brother!' spake she to the sun; The kindred kisses of the starsWere hers; her feet were set upon The ...
Epilogue (Francis Thompson Poems)
Virtue may unlock hell, or evenA sin turn in the wards of Heaven,(As ethics of the text-book go),So little men ...
‘Ex Ore Infantium’ (Francis Thompson Poems)
Little Jesus, wast Thou shyOnce, and just so small as I?And what did it feel like to beOut of Heaven, ...
All Flesh (Francis Thompson Poems)
I do not need the skies' Pomp, when I would be wise; For pleasaunce nor to use Heaven's champaign ...
Love’s Almsman Plaineth His Fare (Francis Thompson Poems)
O you, love's mendicancy who never tried, How little of your almsman me you know!Your little languid hand in mine ...
Love Declared (Francis Thompson Poems)
I looked, she drooped, and neither spake, and cold,We stood, how unlike all forecasted thoughtOf that desir-ed minute! Then I ...
The Kingdom of God (Francis Thompson Poems)
'_In no Strange Land_' O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, O world ...
In No Strange Land (Francis Thompson Poems)
The kingdom of God is within youO world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, O world ...
Nocturn (Francis Thompson Poems)
I walk, I only,Not I only wake;Nothing is, this sweet night,But doth couch and wakeFor its love's sake;Everything, this sweet ...
‘Where Art Thou Come?’ (Francis Thompson Poems)
'Friend, whereto art thou come?' Thus Verity;Of each that to the world's sad OlivetComes with no multitude, but alone by ...
An Arab Love-Song (Francis Thompson Poems)
The hunch?d camels of the nightTrouble the bright And silver waters of the moon. The Maiden of the Morn will ...
An Arab Love-Song (Francis Thompson Poems)
The hunchèd camels of the night Trouble the bright And silver waters of the moon. The Maiden of the Morn ...
In No Strange Land (Francis Thompson Poems)
The kingdom of God is within you O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, O ...
New Year’s Chimes (Francis Thompson Poems)
What is the song the stars sing? (And a million songs are as song of one) This is the song ...